THE BOBALINK.
The bobalink iz a blak bird with white spots on him.
They make their appearanse in the northern states about the 10th ov June, and commence bobalinking at once.
They inhabit the open land, and luv a meadow that iz a leetle damp.
The female bird don’t sing, for the male makes noize enuff for the whole family.
They have but one song, but they understand that perfektly well.
When they sing their mouths git az phull ov musik az a man’s duz ov bones who eats fried herring for brekfast.
Bobolinks are kept in cages, and three or four ov them in one room make just about as mutch noize az an infant class repeating the multiplikashun table all at once.
THE EAGLE.
Thare iz a grate deal ov poetry in eagles; they kan look at the sun without winking; they kan split the clouds with their flashing speed; they kan pierce the blu etherial away up ever so fur; they kan plunge into midnight’s blak space like a falling star; they kan set on a giddy krag four thousand miles hi, and looking down onto a green pasture kan tell whether a lamb iz phatt enough tew steal or not.